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Overview* Finalist for the African Studies Association's 2014 Melville J. Herskovits Award for best book in African Studies Between the 1880s and the 1940s, the region known as British West Africa became a dynamic zone of literary creativity and textual experimentation. African-owned newspapers offered local writers numerous opportunities to contribute material for publication, and editors repeatedly defined the press as a vehicle to host public debates rather than simply as an organ to disseminate news or editorial ideology. Literate locals responded with great zeal, and in increasing numbers as the twentieth century progressed, they sent in letters, articles, fiction, and poetry for publication in English- and African-language newspapers. The Power to Name offers a rich cultural history of this phenomenon, examining the wide array of anonymous and pseudonymous writing practices to be found in African-owned newspapers between the 1880s and the 1940s, and the rise of celebrity journalism in the period of anticolonial nationalism. Stephanie Newell has produced an account of colonial West Africa that skillfully shows the ways in which colonized subjects used pseudonyms and anonymity to alter and play with colonial power and constructions of African identity. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Stephanie NewellPublisher: Ohio University Press Imprint: Ohio University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.327kg ISBN: 9780821420324ISBN 10: 0821420321 Pages: 248 Publication Date: 15 July 2013 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsAn innovative and truly interdisciplinary study.... In essence, the issue of anonymity in West African newspapers provides an original and useful probe in order to discuss and analyze 'cultural histories of colonial societies.' - Andreas Eckert, Humboldt University, Berlin This is a terrific book, creatively conceived, carefully written, deeply thought, and thoroughly original.... [It reveals] a whole wealth of insight into Africans' agency, into the work that African writers did to criticize colonial government, define a public sphere, and develop new modes of civil discourse. - Derek Peterson, University of Michigan An innovative and truly interdisciplinary study.… In essence, the issue of anonymity in West African newspapers provides an original and useful probe in order to discuss and analyze 'cultural histories of colonial societies.' - Andreas Eckert, Humboldt University, Berlin This is a terrific book, creatively conceived, carefully written, deeply thought, and thoroughly original.… [It reveals] a whole wealth of insight into Africans' agency, into the work that African writers did to criticize colonial government, define a public sphere, and develop new modes of civil discourse. - Derek Peterson, University of Michigan Author InformationStephanie Newell is a professor of English at the University of Sussex, UK, and the author of West African Literature: Ways of Reading, Literary Culture in Colonial Ghana, and Ghanaian Popular Fiction: How to Play the Game of Life. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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